Welcome to the website for Kuyper Preparatory School (KPS). Our site serves two purposes. First, we hope it will introduce you to KPS if you are not already familiar with us. Second, we hope to provide you with valuable and useful information if you are already a member of the Kuyper community.

Kuyper Preparatory School is an independent non-profit K-12 grade Christian day school in San Diego based on timeless principles concerning the education of American children.

Kuyper is an environment enriched with the highest appreciation for God and country and the pursuit of excellence. When you place your child in a school, you are placing them in an environment that will help mold their lives forever. Our goal is to help children understand that in spite of the harsh realities that exist in this world, they can be a positive influence and part of the solution by achieving their full potential in life.

We want to help children reach their full potential in life, by getting them started right!

Basic Skills, Logical Analysis, and Moral Character

KPS’s carefully-selected curriculum relies predominantly on primary sources, historical documents, biographies, autobiographies, and classic works of literature. Accordingly, its curriculum stands in contrast to typical contemporary textbooks, which for decades have been subject to oversimplification and historical revisionism. Students utilizing this curriculum consistently score in the top four percent on standardized tests. KPS was set up to teach traditional subjects in traditional ways.

Bilingual Emphasis

All children in grades K-12 will receive instruction in the foreign language of Spanish. Our unique bilingual curriculum is designed to give the communication edge to children in today’s global economy.

Who is Dr. Abraham Kuyper?

Dr. Abraham Kuyper was born in The Netherlands on October 29, 1837. He completed his classical preparatory work for the university at the early age of twelve. He received his Doctorate in Sacred Theology at twenty-six.

He began his first pastorate in 1870, two years later while still in the ministry he became Editor-in-chief of a daily newspaper in Amsterdam, a year later he assumed editorship of a weekly paper. For more than forty-five years he filled both these exacting positions.

In 1874 he was elected a member of the Lower House of Parliament. In 1880 he founded the Free University in Amsterdam, which takes the Bible as the unconditional basis on which to rear the whole structure of human knowledge in every department of life. It is by his almost superhuman labors, no less than by his strength and nobility of character, that he left "foot-prints on the sands of time." In 1907 his seventieth birthday was made the occasion of national celebration, it was said: "The history of the Netherlands, in church, in state, in society, in press, in school, and in the sciences of the last forty years, can not be written without the mention of his name on almost every page."

In 1898 he visited the United States of America, and gave the “Stone Lectures” at Princeton University; it was then they conferred the Doctorate of Laws upon him.

In 1901 he was summoned by Queen Wilhelmina to form a Cabinet, and then served as Prime Minister until 1905. After that, he resided in The Hague as Minister of State, in the public eye the foremost figure in the land, and in some respects without a peer in the world. When he was eighty-two he was laying out plans for another great literary work, but the end came on November 8, 1920.

During all these years his work was many-sided to an astonishing degree. No department of human knowledge was foreign to him. There is always something incomprehensible in the mighty labors of this indefatigable wrestler. Even they who differed with him, honored him as "an opponent of ten heads and a hundred hands." They who shared his vision and his ideals prized and loved him "as a gift of God to our age."

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